They Can't Put It Back-Billy Edd Wheeler

[ti:They Can't Put It Back] [ar:Billy Edd Wheeler] [al:Paper Birds] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]They Can't Put It Back - Billy Edd Wheeler [00:09.32]Down in the valley 'bout a mile from me [00:12.21] [00:13.34]Where the crows no longer cry [00:15.41] [00:17.15]There's a great big earth moving [00:19.20]Monster machine stands ten stories high [00:23.36] [00:25.14]The ground he can eat is a sight [00:27.69] [00:28.85]Takes a hundred tons at a bite [00:31.91] [00:32.61]He can dig up the grass [00:34.46]It's a fact but he can't put it back [00:39.86] [00:48.13]They come and tell me I got to move [00:50.74] [00:52.25]Make way for that big machine [00:54.20] [00:55.86]But I ain't moving unless they kill me [00:58.89] [00:59.99]Like they killed the fish in my stream [01:01.94] [01:03.55]But look at that big machine go [01:06.23] [01:07.41]Took that shady grove a long time to grow [01:10.90] [01:11.86]He can rip it out with one whack [01:14.38] [01:16.87]But he can't put it back [01:18.81] [01:27.67]I never was one to carry signs [01:31.69] [01:35.09]Picket with placards walk in lines [01:37.72] [01:39.57]Maybe I'm behind the times [01:41.83] [01:43.05]You can bet your sweet life [01:44.79]They're gonna hear from me [01:45.96] [01:47.03]I ain't gonna take it laying down [01:48.98] [01:50.57]'Cause I'm getting tired seeing rocks that bleed [01:53.83] [01:55.39]On the bare guts of the ground [01:57.20] [01:59.53]I ain't gonna sell my soul [02:01.60] [02:02.46]So they can strip out another little tiny vein of coal [02:05.70] [02:07.09]I ain't a-moving out of my tracks [02:09.31] [02:11.82]'Cause they can't put it back [02:14.05] [02:15.69]They can't put it back